SSR registration

[Mark-1]

BofS is going to be interesting with my boat.
It was home completed, not by me, and after I bought it I changed the boats name, so the BofS doesn't match the boat's name and there is no HIN on the BofS.

Ditto, except I don't have a BofS at all. ...and my passport expired last year. ?

 

[sailaboutvic]

Ditto, except I don't have a BofS at all. ...and my passport expired last year.

I don't think you need a passport, driving licence with your address on with do.
Hopefully tho who haven't got BOS there be another way around it , as a guess there many who brought older boats some years back in the same boat so to speak

 

[Tranona]

You write as if you are stating facts rather than your opinion.

You've ignored the main thrust of this thread, and that's that there already is a new requirement to show VAT status when registering your boat on the SSR.

That does not seem to be the case, just one unsubstantiated observation, contradicted by others. Can't find any reference to it on either an application or renewal form and just don't believe it anyway. It would need a change in the law to make it a general requirement to "prove" that VAT payment has been made on a boat. The payment is on the transaction, NOT the asset, just as I tried to explain, so any interest by HMRC would start from a belief that there has been a qualifying transaction where VAT has not been dealt with properly. That may well require them to ask for proof, but lack of proof is not proof that a suspect transaction has occurred. If there is proof that the last transaction was between 2 private individuals then the current owner cannot be held liable for any unpaid VAT on an earlier transactions

It is quite reasonable to require some evidence that the boat exists, and that it is owned by the person attempting to place it on the register, that the person is who s/he say they are, and qualify given the past abuses of the register because of the lack of formality and checking.